Cipro

Ciprofloxacin is
the generic international
name for the synthetic antibiotic manufactured and sold by Bayer A.G. under the
brand names Cipro, Ciproxin and Ciprobay (and other brand
names in other markets, e.g. Veterinary medicine), belonging to a group called
fluoroquinolones. Ciprofloxacin is bacteriocidal. Its mode of action depends upon
blocking bacterial DNA replication by binding itself to an enzyme called DNA gyrase,
thereby causing double-stranded breaks in the bacterial choromosome.